22/ “Philip says he “looked ahead 10 to 20 years and saw ourselves older and possibly without family, with diminishing ability to travel, in a country where I didn’t see whites, let alone Jews, being a priority.”
32/ Israel’s education ministry: “Such integration may harm the cultural and family roots of the students and create a unification of cultures in a manner that would erase and blur the identity and the community from which they come.”
University protesters at @Columbia @nyuniversity @MIT and other academic institutions are receiving the classic Zionist treatment, or as I call it -
The "Zionist one-two propaganda punch"
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2/ Zionist propaganda depends on the promulgation of two major fallacies. First, it ahistorically equates Zionism and Judaism as interconnected since biblical days, instead of correctly presenting Zionism as a modern European movement with Christian roots. yakovrabkin.ca/israel-and-zio…
3/ This false equation serves to foil resistance by regarding any criticism of Israeli policies towards Palestinians as an affront on all Jews, ie anti-Semitic. Further, it reframes a settler colonialist movement which oppresses an Indigenous population as an unsolvable religious
My comrade Michael Jacobsen, a US veteran and member of @GazaFFlotilla:
“I am compelled to join this non-violent mission after witnessing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and our government’s role in supporting that genocide.”
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2/ “It is profoundly heartbreaking that so many of my fellow citizens are blinded by the ongoing use of extremely sophisticated media deceptions that fuel, the myth that, ‘the United States supports freedom and democracy around the world’ by fighting some undefined...
3/ ‘global war on terror’. US support of Israel is an extension of that same racist mindset. Human rights activism is a two-step balancing act. On the one hand one has to fully accept that devastating crimes against humanity do exist and on the other embrace the
'The Qatari newspaper "Al-Arabi Al-Jadid" reported today (Thursday) that the United States agreed to Israeli action in Rafah, in return for not carrying out a large-scale attack against Iran. According to the source, Israel plans to divide Rafah into districts, and to act
2/ in a targeted manner in a different area each time, which will cause the local residents to be pushed more and more towards Khan Yunis. The source stated that as part of Egypt's preparations for action,
3/ it is increasing the capacity in the camps for the evacuees in Khan Yunis, which they will enter in coordination with Israel.
A diplomat from a Western country told the newspaper that "Netanyahu succeeded, through political maneuvering, in obtaining American consent to the
The liberal Zionist group @BtSIsrael functions to sanitise and revise the reactionary, settler-colonialist and white supremacist essence of the movement and obscure its motivations – expansionism and apartheid.
2/ Duplicitously, BTS presents Zionism as compatible with democratic and progressive values and human rights, possessing a true desire for peace, justice and complete integration into the Middle East.
3/ Liberal Zionism promotes the notion of a left to right spectrum within Israel. Yet the differences between the extremes are only tactical and cosmetic, maintaining an illusion of a humane society with a healthy democratic discourse.
On Zionists, fundamentalism and an alliance involving starvation of Palestinian people and red cows.
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Over time, secular Zionists have cultivated a symbiotic relationship with extremist cultoid fundamentalist groups, both Christian and Jewish.
2/ The arrangement has been straightforward: Zionists offer military protection, cover and a modicum of respectability for these extremist cultoids, their beliefs and actions within a so-called liberal state,
3/ while the extremists assist in furthering the settler colony's agenda of expansion and resource acquisition via their hilltop brigades, often through the appropriation of Palestinian land under the guise of temporary illegality,
The genocide in Gaza will be over sooner or later and the world will have to confront a new reality. Here’s where things can go.
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2/ Israel and the US have lost, meaning the decline of the “west” led by the US empire, Europe and the white man is inevitable and will accelerate.
3/ Israel is changed forever and on borrowed time as a cohesive entity. Unrest grows. It fragments into the state of Tel Aviv and its satellites, the ultra orthodox communities, Palestinian population centers, and the settlers.